Establishing the Colonies
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This cash crop helped save the colony of Virginia economically.
What is tobacco?
This 1770 event involved British soldiers firing into a crowd of colonists, killing five people.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Patriot from Virginia is known as the “Father of the Declaration of Independence.”
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
This English colony was founded by William Penn as a safe place for the Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This colonial region had rocky soil and cold winters, making farming difficult.
What is New England?
This slogan expressed colonists’ opposition to paying taxes imposed by Britain without their consent.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This group's most famous action was dumping British tea into Boston Harbor in 1773
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
In 1775, these first battles marked the start of open armed conflict between British troops and colonial militias.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This Native American woman helped broker peace between colonists and the local indigenous people in colonial Virginia.
Who is Pocahontas?
This fall 1621 event celebrated cooperation between the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
What is the First Thanksgiving?
The end of this conflict forced the British to end their policy of salutary neglect and begin more vigorously taxing the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War
Colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed independence were called this.
Who are Loyalists?
This was the year that the Treaty of Paris was signed, officially ending the Revolutionary War
What is 1783
These were the settlers who came to North America seeking to purify the English Church
Who are the Pilgrims/Puritans?
This colonial region had fertile soil and important port cities like New York and Philadelphia.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This law passed in 1765 required colonists to pay a tax on all printed materials, including newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This Patriot rode through the night warning colonists that “the British are coming.”
Who is Paul Revere?
The battle in 1777, where American forces defeated the British, convinced France to join the war as an ally.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This document helped establish self-government among the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Many Southern Colonists lived on large farms called this, where enslaved individuals grew cash crops like tobacco and rice.
What is a plantation?
This 1774 meeting of colonial leaders met in Philadelphia and sent a petition to King George III.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This Philadelphia Patriot published newspapers and pamphlets and advocated American Independence.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This 1781 siege in Virginia led to the surrender of British General Cornwallis, effectively ending major fighting.
What is the Siege of Yorktown?
This colony was founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom by Lord Baltimore
What is Maryland?
This 1692 event in Massachusetts involved people being accused of practicing witchcraft.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
This 1774 series of laws punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, closing the port and restricting local government.
What are the Coercive / Intolerable Acts?
He was a Patriot lawyer from Massachusetts who defended Redcoats in court
Who is John Adams
This 1777 winter encampment tested the Continental Army’s endurance, with harsh conditions and limited supplies.
What is Valley Forge?